How the effort works
Effort here is enthusiastic and mobile. This Mars starts with real force and real belief, then discovers something more interesting. What it produces is a great deal of momentum in several directions rather than completion in one.
Physical energy is high and needs somewhere to go; this is one of the placements that genuinely functions worse without exercise.
What the anger looks like
Anger is loud, blunt and quickly over. This Mars says the thing — often the true thing, stated more baldly than anyone wanted — and then considers the matter settled, which the other party frequently does not.
There is very little malice in it and quite a lot of collateral damage.
Attraction and pursuit
Pursuit is direct, warm and slightly impersonal. This Mars is attracted to possibility as much as to the person, and it is honest about that in a way people do not always want.
What actually helps
The correction is a commitment made in public, because this Mars keeps its word to other people far more reliably than to itself.
On bluntness, the useful habit is a single question before the statement: is this true and does it need saying now. The first is usually yes and the second frequently is not.
Why the dignity is what it is
Mars is peregrine in Sagittarius, holding no formal dignity, though the shared fire element makes the combination an easy one.
Jupiter rules the sign, so Mars is being enlarged: the effort is bigger, the conviction is stronger and the aim is less precise. Mutable fire changes direction, which is where the placement's follow-through problem comes from — not from a lack of energy, of which there is plenty.
Against the opposite sign
The Sagittarius–Gemini axis is believing against gathering, and Mars sits on it more starkly than any other planet because it is measured in what gets done rather than in how someone feels. Mars in Sagittarius enthusiasm, Then the Next Thing; Mars in Gemini energy that goes into words and in several directions at once; quick to engage, quick to lose interest.
What Sagittarius finds hard is what Gemini does without thinking. A Mars in Sagittarius that keeps running into the same wall is usually running into the absence of what Gemini supplies without trying, and the useful borrowing is that specific thing rather than the whole temperament.
Questions people ask about this
Is Mars in Sagittarius aggressive?
Anger is loud, blunt and quickly over. This Mars says the thing — often the true thing, stated more baldly than anyone wanted — and then considers the matter settled, which the other party frequently does not.
What does Mars in Sagittarius mean?
It describes how you pursue what you want and how you handle conflict — not what you want, which is Venus and the Sun.
Why is Mars in Sagittarius in peregrine?
Dignity names the fit between planet and sign, not a grade. Mars is peregrine here, which describes a friction or an ease in how the planet operates, and says nothing about the person.